To use one of your existing Storm nodes (such as nimbus, supervisors, or drpc) as a Storm
client node, complete the following steps for every user who requires Storm access (for
example, to run Storm commands or deploy topologies):

Create a .storm directory in the user's home directory. For example,
user john should have a directory called
/home/john/.storm/.

Add the following settings to the /etc/storm/conf/storm.yaml configuration
file: